Introduction

This is a shoot off of my main blog. I suspect it will be a bit more fluffy. My idea is to collect here ideas for celebrating Heathen holidays. Compiling stories, recipes, songs, and traditions. Some will be based in reconstruction but a lot will be modern or adapted. I am going to start with Yule traditions, but I will branch into Sigrblot, and Winter Nights. And then Midsummer, Alfablot, Disting, Mother's Night, etc.

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